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That's very kind of you to say. I appreciate it.

I like to be super-realistic, which may come across as lack of self belief. I'm happy to celebrate my successes, however with this project - I'm keenly aware that little has been achieved yet. From my point of view, I would be reluctant to join someone elses idea, so I presume there's a limited number of people that would be willing to take that kind of risk.

I do feel that I have a lot to bring to the table in a partnership,in lots of areas, including technical thinking & ability. Right now what's needed is everything I don't have and I'm respectful of that. A few months & a self built prototype down the line it would be a much more equal partnership.

I've been to those events and I'd hate to ever be pigeon-holed as someone who wants someone else to do the work for them based on little proof.

They are often oblivious to the learning, planning, effort that goes into building something. I only know because I've tried and will continue to try.

I've been careful to outline what I've done so far, as I welcome the advice given by the HN community.

I agree that instead of being quietly confident I should push myself forward more.
I think you misunderstand why goto's are frowned upon. Goto's are bad because they allows you to jump to anywhere in the code, regardless of structure, which undermines all assumptions you can make about control flow.

Function calls and return are like goto that obeys structure, and therefore don't have the same problems.
I'm sorry but didn't Samsung have a legal team at this trial as well? I'm not sure why all the hate for Apple in this post . Their legal team did their job. Its Samsung's legal team's job to parse the statements correctly for the Jury (I really don't know, but do they still have access to the guy who wrote these emails?)
Did you know the property law that forms the bedrock of our society dates back to feudal times?
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Will I get a job with this degree?
I don't want to be an asshole who just criticizes, but really? It's the best W3C, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Facebook, HP, Adobe, Nokia and Opera could come up with?

Just look at these screenshots:

http://d.pr/i/EbSt

http://d.pr/i/zmk9

http://d.pr/i/i9y

And it took me 5 minutes to load the site - it was down when I first tried it (and on subsequent tries).

So, I personally don't think this is the w3schools killer we were waiting for. At least not yet.
> Hamming's essay isn't about inventing something no-one's come up with before.

Really? I wonder why the title is "You and your research"? You think he is talking about inventing things that someone has come up with before?

Let's look at wiki for research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research

Research and experimental development is formal work undertaken systematically to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications

> Hamming's essay is about doing great work, solving important problems, and having significance.

No, that is your essay.
>>Many people just want an iPhone, walk into a store, and end up buying some Android phone because they are told it's the same thing but cheaper.
>On what planet do a salespeople try to mislead customers into buying less expensive products?

I'm sure there's something more authoritative:

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/05/04/verizon-employees-pu...

I would also like to remind everyone about the popular chinese tech blogger (self proclaimed) that thought a knockoff iPhone was the real thing.

(Random video of this)

http://www.clicknetwork.tv/watch.aspx?c=1&p=8&v=112

Its obviously in the interest of a manufacturer to create some confusion over the branding in order to produce more sales.
> You're begging the question.

No, I am addressing the question, which is whether present psychological research is or is not scientific.

> It absolutely is possible to have well-designed studies that address these topics.

Not ethically, no -- not possible. Prospective double-blind studies are virtually unheard of in psychology because of ethical issues.

> It's how we know anything about depression, anxiety, happiness, motivation, etc. etc.

Yes, true, which is why, in a scientific sense, we don't know anything about these topics. For example, it has recently been determined by way of a meta-analysis that the many antidepressant studies, taken as a whole, contradict each other, and the conclusion is that antidepressants don't work:

Title: "Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration":

Link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=faulty-circ...

A quote: "Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance."

In layman's language, "there is no scientific evidence to support the conclusion that antidepressants actually do anything."

The above study did something quite clever -- it combined studies that the drug industry published, with studies that were paid for and conducted but then suppressed. The outcome for this combination, i.e. all such studies, is that there is no meaningful statistical difference between an antidepressant and a placebo.
The Road to a New Dark Age in the US
Chicago resident here. It's a great city indeed and the startup scene is growing rapidly. Happy to chat/answer any questions you have about it all.

tim at matchist dot com
7 Stages of IPv6 Adoption
Overworked, Overwhelmed, Overscheduled? Work More
My '04 Prius has about the same mileage (though likely more stop/start cycles due to less highway driving) and is still on the original brakes too.
Let me get this straight, people considering the purchase of a vehicle that starts at US$57,400 are balking at a implicit service contract that runs about 50% the cost of their annual Starbucks budget?

These must be the same people that complain about the cost of a 99 cent app for their >=US$200 smartphone.
Lunch Lady slammed for serving food that is too good
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=fog+creek+c...
This is great but sadly you can't resize images in the same version of mobile safari so it limits the usefulness for image uploads. There is a bug that makes large images incorrectly render to a canvas. It seems odd that this wasn't a use case they tested against.
Patio11 makes some of his software, A/Bingo, available as open source. A/Bingo is a Ruby on Rails A/B testing framework, available at his Bingo card site.
on this topic - this is a video worth watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
Peewee [a Python ORM] was baroque, so I rewrote it
" I believe F9 is the only rocket flying today that, like a modern airliner, is capable of completing a flight successfully even after losing an engine."

Brilliant! By equating the rocket with an airliner (the statistically safest way to travel), this turns what could be a mark against into a huge mark for.
Lean Software Development Mindmap
I think you're misremembering the documentary. It was Dijkstra himself reminiscing about a composer, whose scores had corrections taped over them. He was illustrating the difference in mindset by comparing Mozart to Beethoven.
To be fair the DMDs in projectors are a fairly recent innovation. I was interested in projectors in HS, and at that time all projectors were either CRT or LCD based. However, DMDs were an "exciting new technology" that had promises for cinema projection since they could be significantly brighter than the CRT and LCD projectors of the time. I certainly didn't think they would be available in home projectors in under a decade like they were (though the color wheel certainly helped with that)
The same kernel could be installed on different devices, yes, provided the necessary drivers for all of those devices were part of that kernel build. You still have some platform specifics in userspace though, like build.prop and all the HAL libraries. Those could conceivably be loaded in a more neutral way, but I don't think it's set up for that yet.
I read it as that they have already deployed rather than will be. But yes, the comment seems to suggest that the idea of trying to put it into the nominal orbit was abandoned, the speculating being that the 2nd stage had to burn for longer to get the dragon/ISS primary payload as it should be, and so not leaving enough fuel left over for the secondary payload nominal insertion. That sounds plausible, but equally SpaceX haven't said anything so it's all just armchair speculation, which is fun anyway.
That's exactly my first thought. Apart from the TNW article Apple is mentioned only in this blogpost http://blog.webplatform.org/2012/10/one-small-step/
I really don't understand criticism of the Samsung document, and I say this as somebody who currently owns an iPhone 4S - and my previous phone was an iPhone 3G. I also own a Samsung television and home theatre system, and plan on buying a Macbook Pro at the end of the year. I like to think I'm pretty unbiased in this matter as I've spent equal amounts of money on products from both companies, at the same time, and I'm happy with all my purchases.

From my cursory review of the document, all I can see it doing is compare the user experience between the two products. To me it's the difference between a clean-room reverse engineering exercise to build a competing product (implement, compare, revise) vs. a cloning manual (nowhere in that document does it instruct Samsung hardware/software engineers to copy Apple's form and function, it simply highlights areas of improvement; there are areas where I'm sure they concluded Samsung's implementation was better but they didn't write "hey guys we're busy cloning here, stop innovating!").

Look at #114 for example, which describes how Apple's phone has an animation when deleting notes. They don't write "we need an animation when deleting notes" (which would be copying). They identify the purpose of the animation ("fun factor") and recommend introducing some kind of "fun factor" in their own product, and leave details to designers to independently arrive at.

In fact, I recommend reading the very last paragraph in that document: "Remove a feeling that iPhone's menu icons are copied by differentiating design." This is no more sinister than making car wheels round.

Now you could argue that Samsung was just very clever about the way they went and copied things, but there's no concrete evidence of this theory of intent that I've seen presented.

As a matter of practicality, are you honestly telling me if you manufactured [cars, fridges, stoves, watches, laptops, televisions, software, ...] you wouldn't look at your competitor's [cars, fridges, ...] to make sure your design didn't miss anything obvious?

After the first reviews of your new product come in criticizing basic design flaws and viewing it as a "step backwards from competitor A", are you seriously telling me you'd be totally happy to stand there in front of your shareholders and say "Well yeah we could have done some competitive research but that'd be really unfair to our competitors they're actually pretty nice people and we don't want them to be mad!"?

Yes Apple probably spent a fair bit of money researching their UX and Samsung piggy-backed on their research. No more so than Apple piggy-backing on Xerox's work 30 years ago. And their payoff was they were first to market and have become the biggest company in US history. I'm struggling to see where the damage is, or the loss for consumers.
How UltraDNS Handles 100,000s Of Zones And Tens Of Millions Of Records
Looks like the service contract isn't necessary but you still need to bring it to tesla mechanics for repairs / maintenance and annual inspection to keep the warranty. If I have a warranty to keep my car free from problems, I'm going to use it at the place that issued it. Otehrwise how would I get free warranted repairs?
One of the SpaceX engines came apart during launch
Awesome. I hope this turns into something really great.

I know it's in alpha, but my first impression was a bit-off putting:

-Look at Hot Topics, figuring this is a good starting point

-Click on INDEXEDDB (I don't use it, have only a vague idea what it is)

-No introduction. No description of what it is or how to get started.

-Instead, a reference with 50 subpages

-8 flagged issues: Missing Relevant Sections, Needs Topics, Data Not Semantic, Unreviewed Import, Incomplete, Not Neutral, Cleanup, Compatibility Incomplete
Yes, because we need even more of our researched funneled through the DoD. That's much more efficient than patent litigstion...

I used to work on a DARPA project, and had some high school field trips funded by the Naval Surface Warfare Lab. The military is a great source of technology, but it's woefully inefficient and it's got a distinct military bent. The DoD can piss away in waste and graft in one month what patent litigation costs in the whole country for a whole year.
Where is APPLE when we need them for once on there.
Simple trick that lets you code twice as fast
No kids but my partner has his own side-project that I help with, so I know he'd be really supportive of anything I wanted to start.
When you advise against naming a variable a subset of another variable, are you talking about confusing names, or practices like breaking off a chunk of array to process instead of finding a smarter way to step through it like mapping or in-place logic?
I can't comment on how long brake life is, but the Nissan Leaf is meant to be used like how most people use their existing cars, around town driving. There are plenty of 35, 40, 45, 55+ mph zones throughout most cities. People are only braking from 10 mph when going through a parking lot. I doubt a significant amount of Leaf drivers are driving through parking lots all day long. If you're suggesting that freeways turn into parking lots during rush hours, then your statement could be said for all cars not just the Nissan Leaf.
A driver of a roadster says when repairs are needed, they come get the car, so it sounds like a way to pay for that service.
Connecting the dots with Mind Maps
You're not alone. Mercedes is a very shady company, from what I've seen in the past. There is a very good, detailed website[1] exposing their "under-the-hood" tactics. For example, they put so many lives at risk due to a design flaw and secretly replaced certain defective parts under the name of a 'Free Inspection'. This website actually lists more of such tactics.

[1]http://www.thetruthaboutmercedes.com/home.html
I agree, but I'm not sure why you singled this particular article out. HN is filled with articles discussing issues with iPhones, MacBooks and similar. They're all "rich people problems". In fact, I would consider that a car costing 60k is less of an outlier than a telephone that costs more than 600...
I can tell you why: You're clearly a (very) net positive contributor, however "strident" is a predictable default for any post of yours that's overly anything, combined with writing in a classical style.

Why people are trying to label you is you're hard to characterize yet are notably present.
So it's a social problem. And it should be solved with telling kids this: Quote: " And we should ensure that the social climate at our children’s schools is one of warmth and trust, not competition and exclusion."

That'll work. sure.
Getting your papers graded above average is competition and with competition comes fierceness and willingness to learn and fight. How about a nice debate? Oh we can't because that would make two viewpoints compete against one another.
No, they weren't! They just wanted to force all major websites to create an iOS app as well. Now that there are 750.000+ apps in the App Store, they can give web a long-overdue break.

They still don't give websites access to camera feed (read or frontal), among other things, so you can't use a website to make a video conference.
Unless you're racing on the track every weekend, that sounds like a ridiculously short replacement interval. IIRC from my professional mechanic days, Mercedes puts some seriously thick pads on their brakes. I recall that they typically didn't get replaced until many miles had passed. As another commenter mentioned, I'd ask for the pads back.

The rotors, OTOH, come out of the factory barely over spec to begin with (I imagine weight savings/fuel economy as one reason). Just a little bit of wear, and they're not worth turning on the lathe.
Can you spot all the London Tube Stations in this picture?
Isn't Huffman the only serial stage in JPEG decode? IQ, IDCT, and colorspace conversion should be embarrassingly parallel. What fraction of time is spent in Huffman decoding?
Yeah, that one's faked.

http://imgur.com/xuRTN
so programming is your hobby, have some fun while researching and solving some problem using some random solution found on the internet which might work or not

professional coding is about something different
Can we ever be ‘off the grid’?
The XY Traveling Salesman Problem Solved (and it's polynomial)
3 Startup Offers You Shouldn’t Accept
> Only way to assure future updates is to buy an unlocked device directly from Google.

At least in the USA that's often a sucker move. You pay full price for the phone, but still end up paying a higher monthly fee to cover the subsidized handset you didn't take.

A couple carriers do offer BYO handset pricing. But if you want to stick with a big carrier like Verizon then the phones Google sells directly are effectively coming at an extremely hefty premium.
Groklaw has been pretty much heavily biased right from inception. It's just that you're noticing it now because it's no longer in alignment with your own biases in the Apple case.
Only if the app that produced it sticks it in the Camera Roll.
Most of your issues seem to be about Unity. I don't like it either. You should try KDE. It comes built into Kubuntu if you'd like to run it live before you commit. If you like the feel of older Ubuntu, I would recommend xfce, which is what I use. It has come a long way and seem to be what Gnome would be had it not made such a huge shift with Gnome 3. I think it comes built into Xubuntu but I just install it on whatever Linux I am running at the time.
... and is saved in the camera roll (not all images are there. for example a drawing app doesn't put its stupid images in your camera roll!)
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I dont mind people saying i got lots of facts wrong, but hte only one you pointed out that the USA offered Asylum to the nazi rather than my statement of "stole", maybe that was not the right word to use. US just threattened them with POW camps if they did not do as told.

Dont get me wrong i will never know the truth but the Allies were chasing this technically because the nazi's started researching in to it.
If its from the same article I'm thinking about, it's including $12.5 billion for Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility. He bulk of the number is money spent purchasing other companies.

It's not like they're wasting billions of dollars on patent litigation instead of R&D. They're buying companies, including their engineers and their IP, instead of doing things in-house. Both companies are flush with cash-of course they're buying up all the technology companies they can find.
From Control to No Control: A Change in the Leadership Paradigm
Changing habits of thinking is a very long process.) It is as if you're re-training some of your inner neural networks. Training takes time.)
You are correct, I wasn't clear enough in my sentence. I meant to say "Coyote was not launched as an app".The article makes it sound like it's a new development.
I do love this talk and this bit is a really good explanation for why I blog and contribute to open source:

You should do your job in such a fashion that others
can build on top of it, so they will indeed say,
"Yes, I've stood on so and so's shoulders and I saw
further." The essence of science is cumulative.
> O(2^n) equal to O(3^n)

Yep. So I looked into it and it seems they are not equal. Every f(n) in the set O(2^n) belongs to O(3^n). While this means that O(2^n) is a subset of O(3^n), we can see from the trival case f(n)=3^n that O(3^n) is not a subset O(2^n) since 3^n > 2^n for all n as n approaches infinity, or there is no k such that is exists an n0, such that all n > n0 implies 3^n < k*2^n, therefore the two sets are not equal.

Great. I still don't see how I am more qualified to do absolutely anything in life.
Case-distinction-man to the rescue
So, I guess we will see a lot of these articles if trusts are that common and using PayPal. What advantages do trusts have in Australia?
Thank you for the great work. I've been thinking about doing a simple web-based card game for my friends and me, and not having a good way to show cards in the browser has been my biggest impediment!
I've been waiting for intents since 4.0 - I still can't believe it's not been added in 6.0.

Maybe iOS 7.0?
Pretty sure a PhD in Computer Science, like Dr. Colin Percival (the author) has to known that stuff. Even a lowly undergraduate like I was had to learn it by the second year.
https://xkcd.com/984/
It stands to reason that if I'd spent millions of public dollars on several failed black funded secret military projects trying to get a flying saucer in the air, then I'd also hide that fact from the public.

Logically, if they were successful, they would have been spun off into a massive private corporate venture by now.

To be honest I'm surprised they declassified it. Does anyone know if the the US military have a requirement to do so?
"Mercedes is a very shady company, from what I've experienced in the past."

Seriously? Shady company?

You give a site from an obviously very biased operation in India as an example to support your point?

MB sales have increased tremendously in the US since the 1980's. Although I don't own one now I've owned 3 in the past (dating back to the 80's). They aren't cheap to maintain but I've never thought or seen any proof, in the US, of them being labeled as shady by any reputable source. And know many people who buy them year after year.
The contribution from your first year is earning interest for N years, so contributes (1 + R/100)^N (assuming fixed rate R, which is a fiction. That could be a lot of dosh...
I completely missed that! Huh... I guess Microsoft-Nokia is indeed becoming an inseparable tandem.
Those estimates are often wrong though, because the idea of annual 12% returns is complete fiction. In fact the idea of any particular percentage annually is fiction. For instance, I only recently started a pension, however if you look at the stock market history (for simplicity), had I started in 2000, the net gain I could have expected was almost precisely zero, if not negative. If I could have found something that paid 12% from 2000 to 2012, sure, I would have missed out on a lot, but there in fact not only was no such beast (in the broad sense), there was also a lot of ways to experience negative gain.

This is one of my favorite visualizations ever: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110... Be sure to carefully read what it is actually visualizing; I've posted this a couple times and people often knee-jerk a reaction to it based on a complete misreading of the chart.